Friday, October 21, 2011

Pre-4Cs Reflections :: Colin Charlton :: 031510

We [GenAdmin authors] have only started reviewing, indexing, editing, and connecting the over 30 contributions we've received since cameras started making their rounds. This assemblage concerns our group's thinking as we individually and collectively prepare for our trip to Louisville, KY, for 4Cs. Card 59. DISSOLUTION :: Drawn while Colin tweaked the assemblage site in the midst of literally and metaphorically cleaning out his closet / "Dissolution" here does not mean destruction but rather a diminishing of alienating and egoistic feelings and motives. This sign promises a phase of having a favorable effect upon relationships. unity is strengthened as burdensome feelings and experiences are no worked through and your energy is free for positive and constructive purposes.






...from the line of movement and growth i was led to its obverse, the dotted line--the line that is not a line--a succession of instants in which nothing moves or grows...
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If we were but to reverse this procedure [of descent], and to imagine life itself not as a fan of dotted lines [...] but as a manifold woven from the countless threads spun by beings of all sorts [...] then our entire understanding of evolution would be irrevocably altered. [Tim Ingold, Lines: A Brief History, 3)



 / LINE 5. If old and ingrained structures dissolve then exciting ideas will be born. Previously restrained energy begins to flow. Plans lying on hold are tackled with fresh motivation.